Sentence examples for to petty from inspiring English sources

Without educational and employment opportunities, some turn to petty crime.

Some turn to petty crime to support themselves.

"They've been reduced to petty attacks and silly word games.

She was "exposed to petty persecutions," a contemporary said.

Indeed, our susceptibility to petty irritations may be biologically encoded.

Jakester has turned to petty drug dealing for money.

(Hood, in particular, can edge close to Petty territory).

The country remains more orderly and less prone to petty corruption than those farther east.

He turned to petty crime, and he and his friends regularly drank themselves into a stupor.

"Strong countries and strong leaders aren't afraid to tell hard truths to petty dictators," he said.

Labour's manifesto trumpets its "zero-tolerance" approach to petty crime and low-level disorder.